You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You

21/10/2022

it's a new SPOOKY episode featuring special guest Dan Malinowski! we watched the giallo classics Demons & Demons 2, both directed by Lamberto Bava

We discuss the giallo genre, anti-yuppie nihilism, and the apparent torture of Berlin street cuisine.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dUn2ch2vl7u90HaDeZWqq?si=673905e91067436a

20/09/2022

The episode everyone has been waiting for - Ethan and Devin watch Klute (1971). They discuss Klute, Klute, and Klute.follow the pod on twitter at or email us at [email protected].

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MfANttAS3vlziepdpcdiK?si=6ER8x_m4SqatKRjPwJeIwA

06/09/2022

NEW EPISODE: "You're Tall But I'm Standing on the Picket Line"

Ethan and I had Catherine Denham and Ben [Redacted] on for a labor day special episode of You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You on Harlan County, USA (1976). we talk about the radical history of Kentucky, documentary aesthetics, gender, and scabs.

available on apple podcasts, spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e2-youre-tall-but-im-standing-on-the-picket-line/id1572001337?i=1000578526258

‎Show You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You, Ep S2E2: You're Tall but I'm Standing on the Picket Line [Harlan County, USA] - Sep 6, 2022

05/08/2022

we're back with an exciting new episode, "Vote Federation No Matter the Situation"

we are joined by Will Nguyen, aka The Star Trek Communist ( on Twitter), for a double-header episode tackling Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek (2009), and the franchise more generally. We discuss Star Trek's utopian glimmer, the myth of finding technological solutions to social contradictions, and the sweet fizzy taste of a state-planned economy.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s1e22-vote-federation-no-matter-the-situation-star/id1572001337?i=1000574990197

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AgqsV0a60fZkXoemKIN6j?si=6791a77a328f4e0a

06/06/2022

NEW EPISODE: we're talking Avatar w/ J.D. Connor

we dive back into the mind of James Cameron, professional maker of money. We discuss Avatar's immense financial success and limited cultural impact, its relationship to the MCU, and that sweet putter.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-21-avatar-the-last-jamesbender/id1572001337?i=1000565377713

26/04/2022

EP. 20: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Cinema

We watch Stephen Sommers's The Mummy (1999). We discuss the film's swashbuckling racism, (neo)colonial romance, and pour one out for the million dead Indiana Joneses buried underneath Disney World.

This episode features music from Ryan Sylvester. Follow him on Instagram at raoulduke215.

01/04/2022

As many of you know, the bidding for the YTBISIFOY NFT (pending litigation against one Art Garfunkel) is in only a couple weeks! Own a piece of history! Incredible to think we used to suffer in a world of fungible tokens.

01/04/2022

We've decided that this whole "cultural detritus" thing has run its course. We are now a podcast that examines high culture with the seriousness it deserves. We started this new era with a fresh episode on one of the great works of American cinema, Citizen Kane. Listen now at https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KGuyd1C6J9Ygx2S0kG5sP !

Special thanks to our sponsors Under Where? Underwear, COPE CBD gummies, and our new cryptocurrency, the Tall Coin

08/03/2022

Ep. 18: The Wikipedia Theory of History [The King's Man]. Ethan and Devin watch Matthew Vaughn's The King's Man (2021). They discuss the film's shaky critique of British imperialism, the worst (best) midcredits scene of all time, and history as an endless stream of wikipedia pages.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-18-the-wikipedia-theory-of-history-the-kings-man/id1572001337?i=1000553300022

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31/01/2022

Ep. 16: Better Dead than Red Dawn

To celebrate our new deal with Neil Young Archives Dot Com, we watch Red Dawn (1984). We discuss the film's contortions of history & its mangled production, while longing for the more artful propaganda of James Cameron.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-16-better-dead-than-red-dawn/id1572001337?i=1000549549836

‎Show You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You, Ep Ep. 16: Better Dead than Red Dawn - Jan 31, 2022

13/01/2022

EP 15: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD SPIDER-MEN

new reaction pod is out. we saw Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). we want to die and so do you.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-15-no-country-for-old-spider-men/id1572001337?i=1000547792986

24/12/2021

New episode! In celebration of the classic American holiday of Christmas, Ethan and Devin watch It's a Wonderful Life (1946). We dig into what exactly this film is trying to say about capitalism, considering the necessity of fictional George "ah shucks" Baileys working in tandem with divine intervention in order to save us from the inevitability of capitalist exploitation. Also we warn about the dangers of jazz, reminisce about Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, and fail to - at any point - pronounce "Auld Lang Syne" correctly. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5PONKKFZAhhrFMrV2ChbnY

19/12/2021

Devin was a guest on this week's episode of Better Read than Dead, good friends of the pod. They discuss Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Check it out if you like murder, identity theft, and being a weird guy.

Friend, comrade, fellow podcaster, and University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. candidate Devin Daniels joins us to discuss Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)! Devin is the co-host of You’re Tall but I’m Standing in Front of You, and he’s with us for a fun romp about an ordinary guy...

08/12/2021

we're joined by Sarah Osment for our latest episode, "The Master of Disaster"

We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), the problem of mastery, the appeal of the Cause, and go over several easy drink recipes you can make at home, if you live on a submarine.

17/11/2021

EP. 12: DEMOLITION MASCULINITY

In our latest episode, we watch Marco Brambilla's Demolition Man (1993). We discuss the future liberal wants, the Taco Bellification of the Western Male, and one way of escaping the end of history (blowing s**t up).

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-12-demolition-masculinity/id1572001337?i=1000542229603

01/11/2021

we are joined by our old friend & creative director for Team Coco, Matt Powers (). We celebrate Halloween by watching an obscure Canadian movie that Devin picked and which he desperately tries to make the case for, Pontypool (2008). We discuss language, genre, terrorism, and talk radio.

This episode features music by Matt that you can listen to at https://instinctalley.bandcamp.com/releases, plus a closing song by The Exclusive Document, who no longer exist.

https://t.co/6TQEDwDng2?amp=1

Listen to this episode from You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You on Spotify. Ethan and Devin are joined by old friend & creative director for Team Coco, Matt Powers (). We celebrate Halloween by watching an obscure Canadian movie that Devin picked and which he desperately tries...

27/10/2021

some long for arrakis, but we got dune, babe.

24/09/2021

Ep. 8: 20 9/11s, Pt. 4: 9/11 Did Bush

"we're gonna need a bigger conspiracy"

It's part 4 of our 4-part series on 9/11's impact on garbage culture (and our garbage future); we watch Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009).

We discuss the film's montage-as-conspiracy aesthetics, its influence on our increasingly fantastical reality, and the undeniably great tunes.

We finally made it! Let's never do this again.

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17/09/2021

EPISODE 7: 20 9/11s, Pt. 3: Bore of the Worlds

"THE JAVELIN'S THE KEY! LOAD THE GUSTAV, IT'S GONNA BE A TOUGH WATCH!"

In part 3 of our 4-part series on 9/11's impact on garbage culture (and our garbage future), Ethan and Devin watch War of the Worlds (2005).

We discuss Steven Spielberg's middlebrowification of the War on Terror, Tom Cruise's aversion to hummus, and the ideological refuge of the American family.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HSSHEIfBxV5sFIYDOmGih?si=df2f31ac31b644d7

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03/09/2021

episode 5: With Great Power Comes No Responsibility

part one of our 4-part series on 9/11's cultural impact is here! we watch Spider-Man (2002), a film that (accidentally?) established so many of the conventions of post-9/11 blockbusters

Listen to this episode from You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You on Spotify. "I love you, but I've chosen stopping weird crimes."As part of our 4-part series on 9/11's impact on garbage culture (and our garbage future), Ethan and Devin watch Spider-Man (2002). We discuss its vexed production...

02/09/2021

In this clip from our most recent episode (https://t.co/npPlXmydDs), Devin William Daniels regales us with the details of Remember Me (2010)'s plot.

"This film is brave enough to ask the question, 'What if you've finally reconciled with your father, but then it turned out to be 9/11?'"

01/09/2021

Here's our sad carnival cover of Wake Me Up When September Ends from our latest episode. Go ahead and play it through the month of September, which ends never.

We're tall, but Billie Joe Armstrong is standing in front of us.

20/08/2021

Screw you, dad - Lara from Facebook is going to help me achieve my goals and find more customers. See, I didn't need your help after all!

16/08/2021

Ep. 3 is out! Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or the app of your choice.

We watch Super Mario Bros (1993) & discuss late-stage dino-capitalism, the impossibility of video game adaptation, & everyone's favorite Italianx-American: Rudolph Guiliani.

https://tinyurl.com/utuj9frn

15/08/2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda just straight up stole Iggy and Spike's Super Mario Bros. (1993) rap for Hamilton with no repercussions? Wow.

New episode tomorrow.

13/08/2021

New episode dropping soon.

09/08/2021

leaked photo of Ethan P. Smith and Devin William Daniels gearing up to record Episode 3 this week

11/07/2021

11/07/2021